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After a few weeks developing my unattended PC build<\/a> using physical PCs, today I needed to deploy a virtual PC (VPC). It should be simple to boot a VPC to a Remote Installation Services (RIS) server and apply an image as normal, but in case anyone else out there is googling<\/a> to find out why they can’t get it working, here’s some of the stuff I’ve found today.<\/p>\n

The SMC 9332 NIC which VPC emulates does not include PXE support, but RIS has provision for this in the form of the remote installation boot disk<\/a>, which may be created using the \\\\servername\\reminst\\admin\\i386\\rbfg.exe tool (and for VPC users, Roudy Bob has published a virtual RIS Boot Disk<\/a> on his website).<\/p>\n

I spent a while this morning wondering why I was receiving the following message, even though my virtual PC was using the host PC’s network card and the DHCP logs in %systemroot% showed an IP address being assigned to a device with the MAC address of my virtual PC:<\/p>\n

DHCP
\nNo reply from a server
\nPress any key to reboot system <\/em><\/p>\n

This particular problem turned out to be related to my RIS configuration – after a not inconsiderable time spent searching, Microsoft knowledge base article 891372<\/a> reminded me that I had selected the checkbox to prevent responses to unknown clients in the properties for the RIS server (I pre-stage client PCs so that when they are rebuilt, RIS already knows the computer name).<\/p>\n

Once that was fixed, everything was looking good, except that the Client Installation Wizard was not displayed. I enabled debug logging on the Boot Information Negotiation Layer service<\/a> and the %systemroot%\\debug\\binlsvc.log file indicated that the RIS server was communicating with my client, but for some reason it was hanging after the server had sent a response:<\/p>\n

[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:07:30 [MISC] Client Guid: {00000000-0000-0000-0000-0003ffa7b536}
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:07:31 [MISC] MachineDN = CN=VPC1,OU=Policy,DC=home,DC=local
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:07:31 [OPTIONS] Server allows new clients and the Server is generating the OS Chooser path response.
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:07:31 [OPTIONS] Server allows new clients and the Server is generating the OS Chooser path response.
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:07:31 [MISC] SamName = VPC1$
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:07:31 [MISC] Name = VPC1
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:07:31 [OPTIONS] Recognizing client.
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:07:32 [MISC] Client Guid: {00000000-0000-0000-0000-0003ffa7b536}
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:07:32 [OPTIONS] Recognizing client.
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:07:32 [MISC] Client Guid: {00000000-0000-0000-0000-0003ffa7b536}
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:07:32 [OPTIONS] Recognizing client.
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:07:32 [STOC] Sending response to = 192.168.7.106, XID = 63702087.<\/code><\/p>\n

Compared with a working (physical) PC, where the log read:<\/p>\n

[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:17:01 [MISC] Client Guid: {84e1f6e8-cfcc-11d6-7f6d-218f133b01ff}
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:17:01 [MISC] MachineDN = CN=LAPTOP1,OU=Policy,DC=home,DC=local
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:17:01 [OPTIONS] Server allows new clients and the Server is generating the OS Chooser path response.
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:17:01 [OPTIONS] Server allows new clients and the Server is generating the OS Chooser path response.
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:17:01 [MISC] SamName = LAPTOP1$
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:17:01 [MISC] Name = LAPTOP1
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:17:01 [OPTIONS] Recognizing client.
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:17:02 [MISC] Client Guid: {84e1f6e8-cfcc-11d6-7f6d-218f133b01ff}
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:17:02 [OPTIONS] Recognizing client.
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:17:02 [MISC] Client Guid: {84e1f6e8-cfcc-11d6-7f6d-218f133b01ff}
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:17:02 [OPTIONS] Recognizing client.
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:17:02 [STOC] Sending response to = 192.168.7.104, XID = 8831c65a.
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:17:04 NULL screen name so we are retrieving the Welcome Screen.
\n[BinlServer] 02\/15 14:17:04 Retrieving screen file: 'E:\\RIS\\OSChooser\\welcome.osc'<\/code><\/p>\n

I spent hours trawling the ‘net, completely mistified as to why physical PCs worked, but not virtual PCs, until a colleague reminded me that RIS servers should not have multiple NICs installed (they can have but it is not recommended – this is also explained in Microsoft knowledge base article 891372<\/a>). My RIS server does<\/em> have two NICs – one connected to a 3Com SuperStack 3300 switch (downstairs), and one wireless LAN connection to the LAN in my office upstairs (which uses a mixture of wired and wireless LAN technologies). As a last resort, I plugged the host PC into the downstairs switch and the VPC suddenly found the RIS server.<\/p>\n

For reference, by default, after obtaining an IP address and downloading the boot image, RIS displays a prompt for the user to press F12. This may be disabled by renaming startrom.com to startrom.old and startrom.n12 to startrom.com (found at \\\\servername\\reminst\\oschooser\\i386). You can also edit the .osc files used by the Client Installation Wizard as these are simply OSCML documents (modelled on HTML 2.0).<\/p>\n

Now RIS is working as I expected and I can even go back to pre-staging clients (GUIDs for VPCs are formed with the MAC address for the virtual NIC, prefixed with 00000000-0000-0000-0000-).<\/p>\n

This should have been simple, but a couple of minor issues made it very difficult – I just hope my experience is useful to someone else out there in cyberspace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Links<\/h3>\n

How to set up, configure, and use Remote Installation Services in Windows 2000<\/a>
\nCustomising RIS Installations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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